Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-19
Sexton Administers an Unmerciful Scor-
ing to Saunderson.

THE STRIFE RENEWED.
ing to Saunderson.
LONDON, April 1Sth.-In the House of
| Commons this evening Sexton asked
| whether the Government would consent to
rescind the suspension of Heaiy. w. H.
Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, replied
for the Government that the duty they
had to discharge on Friday night was most
| disagreeable. The Government was sorry
they were forced to ask Healy to be named
| for transgression of the orders of the
| House. 1t would be utterly out of the
| question, however, when no apology had
been given for this breach of the decencies
of debate, to rescind the suspension. The
| motion to that effect could not be enter
| tanned without the general concurrence of
| the House.
Sexton inquired if it would be COM
petent for him to move the resembling of
Healy's suspension.
Speaker Peel replied that no motion
would be competent unless it appeared on
| the paper of the HOUSE that the offensive
remarks had been Withdrawn.
1 Sexton said that, in the absence of Healy,
| he was authorized to say that if Major
Saunderson withdrew the offensive charges
| to which Healy's language was in reply,
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deemed by the House offensive.
Jacob Bright liberal, and brother of
John Bright asked why it was that when
two members of the House committed the
| same offense, one was suspended while the
other was not.
The Speaker said that under ordinary
circumstances he would decline to answer
| that question, or any question implying
that his action was not impartial, but un-
der the present circumstances he would
explain. In the second instance in which
a breach of the rules had been committed
| THAT OF Sexton) an apology followed the
withdrawal of the expression causing the
| breach.
Sexton moved that Healy be heard at
| the bar of the House, which the Speaker
declared could not be done. Sexton then
! asked Major Saunderson to withdraw his as
sertions regarding Healy which exasper-
| ated him into making the response for
| which he was suspended.
Saunderson remaining quiet, Gladstone
put to him the direct question whether he
was prepared to render the House any assist
ance by the withdrawal of his offensive ex-
pressions. conservative cries mo, no"
"Don't."1
Saunderson said he never alluded to
| Healy, directly or indirectly, because he
felt, as regards Healy, that he was unable
to substantiate the charges so as to bring con-
viction to the mind of the members of the
| House. [Cries of Hear hear!'1
The matter was then dropped.
Subsequently Sexton, reSuming the de-
bate on the Irish Crimes Act amendment
bill, said that Saunderson charged him
with direct completely in crime. If the ac-
cusation were well founded, why did the
Irish Viceroy approve of his present ap-
pointment as High Sheriff of Dublin ?
His name, as member of the League, had
been linked with that of Sheridan, the In
vlncible, but Sheridan was never q mem
j Der OF tie Executive Council of the Land
League. Did Saunderson, in pointing
to him (Sexion). mean in reality 10 embar-
rass Colonel King Harmon, against whom
the Major recently unsuccessfully com.
peted for the new Government office
of Parliamentary Under Secretary for
Ireland? Parnellite cheers For Sheri-
dan and Colonel King Harmon once can
yassed the same constituency together
Again, Egan, the Treasurer of the old
League, was at one time an intimate friend
of Colonel King Harmon. [Cheers. They
were fellow-members of the Council of the
Home Rule League. Not only that but
Egan wrote for the Colonel his political ad-
dress to his electors. Laughter.l If past
association with men charged with crime
| IndheS CilInllldiS OF uieI, which SlOe OF tllt
House was deepest in assassination II twas
manifestly an absurdity for Sauuderson tC
accuse the Executive OF the Land League
of knowing that men were murGerers be.
cause their names were mentioned in con.
nectio1 with the Phoenix Park affair." He
(Sexton) never learned of any fact or any.
tLing that had been proved which would
warrant him in changing the opinion he
always entertained that Egan and those
associated with him were innocent OF the
malignant charges brought against them
[Cries of Hear .hearr'l Saundersoa
attack was both mean and cowardly
Referring to the bill under consideration
Sexton said the matter threatened the ex-
istence of the irish National League He
would remind the House that the League
aided by the prelates and the clergy of the
Catholic Church, had struggled to maintain
the moral law, yet this League so supported
was stigmatized as conspiracy maintained
by criminals and dynamiters. The bill
Itself is the grossest kind of an attempt at
the violation of the moral law. 1t aimed
to sweep away at one fell swoop ali the
cherished rights of the people, and was
justified by nothing in the condition Of
Ireland